“Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age. ”

“When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. ”

“Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. ”

“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long”

“To me, fair friend, you never can be old, for as you were when first your eye I eyed, such seems your beauty still. ”

“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever”